Jas Gawronski

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Jas Gawronski, MEP

Jas Gawronski (born 07 February 1936, Vienna, Austria) is an MEP from the former Italian political party Forza Italia.

Affiliations

• Vice-Chairman, Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia
• Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Member, Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• Substitute, Committee on Transport and Tourism
• Substitute, Subcommittee on Human Rights
• Substitute, Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee
• Substitute, Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe
• Substitute, Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula
• Substitute, Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

Paid Functions or Activities:

• Occasional journalistic collaborations

Record of Parliamentary Votes

• Voted against the directive on "waste electrical and electronic equipment" (A5-0100/2002). The amendment sets higher reuse and recycling rates for IT and telecommunication equipment. Rejected due to lack of absolute majority.
• Voted against the directive on "environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage" (A5-0145/2003). According to the amendment, polluters have to pay for environmental clean-up, and it supports an EU-wide regime which makes polluters liable for the damage they cause to wildlife, water and land.
• Voted against the directive on restructuring the "Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity" (A5-0302/2003). The amendment aims at giving tax benefits to environmentally friendly sources of energy, which would make them cheaper and more competitive to conventional (more polluting) sources of energy. It also gives tax benefits to environmentally friendly uses of energy for transport, for instance trains. Rejected due to lack of absolute majority.
• Voted against the amendment on Bulgaria’s progress towards accession (A5-0105/2004). The report objects to extending the life of the nuclear power stations in Bulgaria.

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Graduate in Law from the University of Rome (1958).
• Eastern European correspondent of Il giorno newspaper (1959-1962).
• On the editorial staff of journalistic programmes for RAI (Italian radio and television broadcasting company) from Vietnam, India, the United States and Eastern Europe (1962-1966).
• RAI correspondent in New York (1966-1977), Paris (1977-1979) and Moscow and Warsaw (1979-1981).
• Director of political and scientific programmes on the television channels of Finivest (1985-1992).
• Has contributed since 1989 to the daily newspaper La Stampa, of which he was elected member of the Board of Directors.
• Member of Turin City Council (1982-1983) and of Piedmont Regional Council (1985).
• Senator (1996-1999).
• Spokesman for the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (1994-1995).
• Member of the European Parliament (1981-1994 and since 1999).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

09E158

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 45292

Fax

+32 (0)2 28 49292

Email:

jas.gawronski@europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.jasgawronski.it

Resources

• European Parliament, Dichiarazione degli Interessi di carattere finanziario dei deputati: Jas Gawronski, 12 March 2008, accessed 18 April 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Jas Gawronski, accessed 18 April 2009.
• Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 18 April 2009.